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SCIENCE
Volume 330, Issue 6009, Pages 1381-1385Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1194167
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- Sars Centre
- Norwegian Research Council
- Genoscope
- NSF [IOS-0719577, DBI-0743374]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [0743374] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Genomes of animals as different as sponges and humans show conservation of global architecture. Here we show that multiple genomic features including transposon diversity, developmental gene repertoire, physical gene order, and intron-exon organization are shattered in the tunicate Oikopleura, belonging to the sister group of vertebrates and retaining chordate morphology. Ancestral architecture of animal genomes can be deeply modified and may therefore be largely nonadaptive. This rapidly evolving animal lineage thus offers unique perspectives on the level of genome plasticity. It also illuminates issues as fundamental as the mechanisms of intron gain.
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